Cervus canadensis canadensis [Taylor] and [Shaw], Occ. Papers Chas. R. Conner Mus., 2:29, December, 1929.
Cervus canadensis nelsoni [Bailey], Proc. Biol. Sec. Washington, 48:188, November 15, 1935.
Type.—Obtained at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, by J. Pitcher; died in captivity on September 21, 1904; type in United States National Museum.
Description.—Smaller and paler than roosevelti with longer, slimmer antlers.
Distribution.—Formerly occurred in northeastern Washington and the Blue Mountains of southeastern Washington. Since then exterminated and reintroduced to both areas from the Rocky Mountains. Also introduced and established in the eastern Cascades.
Odocoileus virginianus (Boddaert)
White-tailed deer
Description.—The white-tailed deer differs from the black-tailed and mule deer in several anatomical details. The tail is long, wide, and when the animal is frightened is carried upright with the long, white hair of the underside spread out. The antlers of the buck are not of a biramous system of branching but instead consist of a main beam which curves sharply out and forward, remaining low. All subsidiary tines, save the basal one, emerge from the dorsal side of the main beam. The basal tine is usually a spurlike point arising vertically from the main beam not far from the base of the antler. In exceptional specimens the basal tine is large and divided into several points. The body of the "whitetail" is more smoothly rounded, and more graceful, than that of the mule deer.
